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MPs prepare for combat with Sir Christopher Kelly over expenses reforms

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 04, 2009

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Expert on medical ethics and law expected to be tasked with role of cleaning up parliament

An expert on medical ethics and law is expected to be tasked with the role of cleaning up parliament when the head of the new political expenses watchdog is announced today.

Sir Ian Kennedy is expected to take on the job as chair of the independent parliamentary standards authority (Ipsa).

As well as a high-level academic career at University College London, and chairing the healthcare commission for six years, Kennedy delivered the BBC's Reith lectures in 1980 and hosted Channel 4's After Dark discussion programme.

His legal and ethical faculties will be tested in a role that will see him pitted against a sizeable proportion of MPs. Many feel recommendations being laid before Ipsa by the former civil servant Sir Christopher Kelly should not be adopted wholesale.

Kelly's report, to be launched today in parliament, is one of several submissions to Ipsa. But his proposals are likely to be the most ambitious and MPs intend to spend the rest of the year – before Ipsa indicates

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